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Saakashvili still has the immense talent for communication that made him an international celebrity when he took power after 2003's bloodless Rose Revolution. He's an imposing man - at 6 ft. 4 in. (193 cm), he is the tallest Georgian I saw until we watched the national basketball team beat Belarus - with a polyglot charisma. At various times throughout the week, he spoke to me in Russian, Spanish and - above all - his famous English, an enthusiastic tumble of idiomatic American that he learned while studying and practicing law in New York City and Washington. (See pictures of the Russians...
...Albano had an outsize personality that helped lead the sport to cultural prominence. Blustery and manic, he wore rubber bands as earrings--as well as hair ties on his epic gray goatee--and was forever hitching up his too baggy pants. This unforgettable appearance made him a perfect point man for a WWF marketing venture dubbed the Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection, a cross-promotion in which Albano popped up in several Lauper music videos, while the pink-haired singer in turn graced numerous WWF broadcasts. The effort is credited with propelling the WWF (now the WWE) to widespread popularity...
When it came time to pick an interpreter for the Nazi war-crimes trials at Nuremberg, the prosecution settled on a man who barely escaped the Holocaust. As a child, Richard Sonnenfeldt fled Nazi Germany for boarding school in England, where, because of his nationality, he was declared an "enemy alien" and deported. On his way to an internment camp in Australia, he survived an attack by a German U-boat and was later abandoned in India when British officials realized he was Jewish. After being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943, Sonnenfeldt, who died...
Consuming more than four drinks per week can reduce the chance of conception by 18 percent for women and 14 percent for men. In couples where both the man and woman drink up to four drinks a week, chances of conception are reduced by 26 percent—“a huge decrease,” according to Rossi...
Martlet Victoria Wells was in the box for tripping, giving Harvard a power play for the balance of the frame. The Crimson, as it did all afternoon with a man up, kept the pressure on in the McGill zone but couldn’t break through Salisbury’s wall...